Shoe-fastener.



PATENTED JUNE 2, 1903- 11., ELLIS. SHOE FASTENB-R. APPLIUATION FILED AUG. 30,1906.

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WITNESSES:

INVENTOR vEdward Ellis,

ATTORNEY THE NORRIS PETERS Cm, wnsmua'mu, a. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD ELLIS, OF IOWA FALLS, IOWA.

' SHOE-FASTENER.

Application filed. August 30, 1906.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD ELLIS, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Iowa Falls, Hardin county, Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoe-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to shoe fasteners, and the object of my invention is to provide an inexpensive and easily manipulated fastener for shoe-strings," which may be easily attached to or removed from a shoe. This object I have accomplished by the means which are hereinafter described and claimed, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved.

shoe-string fastener as attached to a portion of the upper leather of a-shoe, Fig. 2 is a plan view of the fastener and its clutch-plate, Fig. 3 is a detail view of the clutch-plate andthe screw, Fig. 4 is a detail view of the coil spring and its clip in perspective, and Fig. 5 is a detail view of the screw showing it with its head flattened and extended to take the place of a clutch-plate, while Fig. 6 is a view of my im proved fastener as actually used upon a shoe tofasten thereto the ends of a shoe-string.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

My improved fastener consists essentially of four parts or cooperating elements, and as will be afterwards shown, one of these elements may be so changed as to obviate the use of one of the other elements.

. I have shown a screw 0 having a thin flattened head I), said head providing a seat for a contact or clutch-plate 0 formed of a thin metal plate perforated that the screw 0 may pass therethrough. One side of said contact or clutch-plate c is lengthened to furnish a bearing for the clip e of the coil-spring d, the coils of the latter encircling the screw a above 'the said clutch plate, the upper leather h,

however, being inserted between them. A nut f fits upon the screw a and compresses the coils of the spring (Z upon the upper leather h, as shown in Fig. 1.

In use, the fastener may be connected to the upper leather, by perforating the latter, and passing the screw a through such perforation, keeping both the screw head and the clutch-plate c on the same side of the leather and on the inner side of the shoe. The spring d is then slipped over the screw so as Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 2, 1908.

Serial No. 332,650.

to permit the clip 6 to bear against the leather it just over the lengthened portion of the contact or clutch-plate 0, when the nut may be screwed down to effect proper compression of the s ring. As shown in Fig. 1, the tip of the c ip e is slightly raised to permit ease in drawing a shoe-string m thereunder. To fasten the shoe-string after it has been laced, one end i of such string is first encircled about the stud above the clip 6, then drawn under said clip, the latter by its tension against the string and clutch-plate, holding the end of such string securely. The other end Z of the string having been secured between theshoe and the end i as shown, may be prevented from slipping out by simply knotting it just above the end i.

In Fig. 5 I have shown an alternative form of screw a having a flattened and extended head, whose extension 1) serves to take the place of the clutch-plate c.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

. 1. A shoe fastener, comprising a contactplate on the inside of the shoe-top having a threaded shank projected therefrom, such shank being located near one end of said contact-plate and adapted to pass through the material of the shoe, a coil-spring about said shank bearing upon such material and over said contactlate and having a laterally extending upti ted end adapted to bear upon such material over the extension of said contactlate, said coil-spring removably secure to said shank.

2. A shoe fastener, comprising a flatheaded threaded stud, a contact-plate seated about said stud inside of the shoe-top and having an extension at one side, said stud adapted to pass through the material of the shoe-top and said contact-plate to contact with the inner surface of the said material, a coil-spring about said stud adapted to bear against the outside of said material over said extension, and means for adjustably compressing said spring upon said material and contact-plate and for securing it about said stud.

Signed at Waterloo, Iowa, this 11th day of Aug. 1906.

EDWARD ELLIS. Witnesses:

G. G. KENNEDY, M. E. KENNEDY. 

